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June 4, 2023 - Dust over the Nile River Delta

   Dust over Nile
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   On June 2, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
   (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of
   a massive cloud of dust stretching across the green Nile River Delta
   and the Mediterranean Sea.

   The cloud of dust appears impressive from space, but on Earth the
   sandstorm proved even more dramatic as a blistering hot and strong
   khamsin wind carried a tower orange wall of dust from the Great Sand
   Sea northward. News photographers as well as residents captured
   heart-stopping photos of the oncoming cloud of dust in Cairo, Egypt and
   near the Suez Canal, then published them across various social media
   platforms and news outlets.

   According to news reports, the vicious winds dropped a large billboard
   on a busy road in Cairo, killing at least one person and injuring
   others. Trees were toppled and residents were warned to stay inside,
   with windows closed. After the frontal edge of the dust storm passed,
   light rain followed, carrying some airborne dust to the ground as
   blistering temperatures registering about 104˚F (40˚C) cooked the
   region.

   The khamsin is a hot, dry, dusty wind that blows across North Africa
   from the south or southeast in early spring and late winter. It is
   created by a center of low pressure moving over the Sahara Desert. The
   frontal edge of the khamsin wind carries extremely dry and very hot air
   from the desert as well as large amounts dust and sand northward. It
   may blow continuously for three or four days, but as it passes it
   usually is followed by much cooler air. Satellite imagery showed that
   this particular sandstorm affected northern Egypt on June 1-2, but
   skies were nearly clear by June 3.

   Image Facts
   Satellite:  Terra
   Date Acquired: 6/2/2023
   Resolutions:  1km (489.6 KB),  500m (1.1 MB),  250m (706.5 KB)
   Bands Used: 1,4,3
   Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-06-04
 
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